TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT 'I knew you'd carry me, Harry,3 he said. *Carry you to hell,' I said. 'You aren't even on the crew list. I've got a good mind to make you jump overboard now/ Tou're an old joker, Harry,' he said. 'Us Conchs ought to stick together when we're in trouble.' 'You/ I said, 'with your mouth, Who's going to trust your mouth when you'r.e hot?' Tin a good man, Harry, You put me to the test and see what a good man I am.' 'Get me the two quarts,' I told him. I was thinking of something else. He brought them out and I took a drink from the open one and put them forward by the wheel He stood there and I looked at him. I was sorry for him and for what I knew I'd have to do. Hell, I knew him when he was a good man. 'What's the matter with her, Harry?' 'She's all right.' 'What's the matter, then? What are you looking at me like that for?' 'Brother/ I told him, and I was sorry for him, 'you're in plenty of trouble/ 'What do you mean, Harry?' *I don't know yet/ I said, *I haven't got it all figured out yet.' We sat there awhile and I didn't feel like talking to him any more. Once I knew it, it was hard to talk to him. Then I went below and got out the 48